AT&T now offers its Internet Air service in nearly 60 locations
AT&T has substantially expanded the eligible service areas for its A&T Internet Air Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) service, and now serves parts of 59 markets, up from 35 at the end of the...
The governing board for the First Responders Network Authority (FirstNet) has approved network reinvestments of $547 million for its fiscal year 2024, focused on increasing coverage and transitioning FirstNet to a full 5G network.
FirstNet says that as of the end of 2023, it...
AT&T and TransUnion are now offering businesses a branded solution for outgoing calls, to pop up a brand name and business logo for the recipient and confirm the legitimacy of a call in order to encourage them to answer.
A recent TransUnion survey confirmed...
Greetings from Missouri. This has been a couple of “at home” weeks prior to a travel-heavy February, which has allowed us to probe a little deeper into fourth quarter earnings. Since the last Brief, Jim’s interview with the 5G Guys podcast has been published (here and...
AT&T beat its guidance on its full-year mobility service revenues for 2023 and consumer broadband revenues for 2023, and garnered postpaid phone net adds for the quarter of 526,000.
The company's stock still slipped more than 3% on Wednesday after its financial report, in...
AT&T's five-year deal with Ericsson and a spike in 5G investment in India were bright spots in an otherwise contracting market
With the exception of a major five-year deal with AT&T and a spending spike in India, Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm described a “difficult mobile...
New investors join Vodafone on backing 'cellular in space' network
Satellite direct-to-cellular company AST SpaceMobile has garnered two major new financial backers, adding AT&T and Google as strategic investors along with additional funding from existing partner Vodafone to support commercial roll-out of its technology.
The...
The new AT&T Connected Solutions group incorporates connected vehicles into larger IoT business
Over the years CES has gradually brought in more and more automotive technology and this year was no exception. Given AT&T’s long-standing leadership in connecting vehicles, RCR Wireless News caught up with...
T-Mobile US continues to ratchet up its network speeds, with modern chipsets able to achieve a median download speed of 188.96 Mbps during the fourth quarter of 2023, up from 163.59 Mbps during the third quarter and a "strong increase", according to new analysis...
Opensignal looks at 5G experience vs. overall network experience among the three largest U.S. MNOs
T-Mobile US continues to maintain its lead in offering the fastest 5G speeds and availability, but Verizon and AT&T's C-Band deployments are helping those carriers to make some inroads.
That's the...
AT&T said it is looking at trying to turn some circuits down as users migrate from legacy technologies such as DSL to fiber
Operators are facing the challenge of having to deploy more hardware to meet the appetite of users for more data while at...
Nokia says it has been planning for a new market reality
Nokia laid out its long-term strategy in a business update today that came in the wake of AT&T choosing Ericsson as the foundational vendor in its shift toward open networks. Investors responded by...
AT&T announced this week that it wants to have 70% of its traffic on open network platforms within the next few years and will spend up to $14 billion with Ericsson to make that happen. In remarks at the UBS Global Media and Communications...
AT&T to spend $21-22 billion in CapEx in 2024
AT&T's returns from its fiber investment have been better than expected—and it's eying an additional 10-15 million incremental locations within its existing footprint that CEO John Stankey said are economically "as attractive as the ones we're...
Next March, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's Institute for Telecommunications Science and the Department of Defense's FutureG Office will hold an invite-only event at which telecom companies and academic researchers will have a chance to demonstrate (not simulate) applications for the RAN Intelligent...
Nokia noticeably absent from AT&T's five-year effort to deploy commercial-scale open radio access networks
AT&T is planning to spend roughly $14 billion over the next five years to shift 70% of its network traffic onto open and interoperable platforms, with the foundation provided by Ericsson.
The...
The advent of 5G technology has opened up a plethora of opportunities for innovation, from IoT applications to ultra-reliable low-latency communication. However, the journey towards realizing the full potential of 5G is fraught with complexities, especially when it comes to hyperscaling network services. This...
AT&T will retain an ownership stake and board representation in the new entity
AT&T announced an agreement to create a standalone managed cybersecurity services business.
In a release, the telco also announced a capital investment in that business from WillJam Ventures, a Chicago-based investor with cybersecurity...
For Industry 4.0, business case development and technical considerations are clearly important but maybe market catalyzation will come from leaps of faith
Uptake of industrial 5G solutions has been a bit of a mixed bag. While the vision of Industry 4.0 hasn’t yet been relegated...
Current tests are laying the groundwork for RedCap to be commercialized in the 2024-2025 timeframe
Carriers and network equipment manufacturers have stepped up tests and trials of 5G New Radio Reduced Capability (RedCap) in recent months. Geographically, these tests are taking place around the world,...
Greetings from Missouri, Texas, and Louisiana. Pictured is the state capitol building for the Bayou State (full history here). This week’s Brief will focus on a wide-ranging interview with Liberty Media’s John Malone. Rather than dive into earnings results, we thought that John’s insights (especially given the...
Dish Network CEO is also leaving EchoStar merger nears completion
As the company reinvents itself to be a mobile network operator augmented by satellite capabilities brought in by EchoStar, Dish Network stock plummeted to a 25-year low following weak Q3 earnings. The Wednesday earnings call,...
Wireless is the future. That does not mean that it’s an easy business. There have been many ups and downs over time. The past decade has been rough for both AT&T and Verizon. Now, suddenly this quarter they finally both reported strong performance along...
Research and development efforts around the world are already honing in on what will constitute future 6G systems, from candidate spectrum bands to potential capabilities such as joint communications and sensing, and intelligent reconfigurable surfaces.
6G is also expected to herald a massive increase...
